SWE 65th Awards Banquet Dinner

Individual Banquet Registration

Corporate Table Banquet Registration

SWE Detroit Award Nominations - Due by May 3rd

Do you know of any outstanding SWE Detroit members?  Please nominate them to receive an Award at our Fiscal Year 2017 Banquet!  Nominations are due by May 3rd.

Our 65th Anniversary SWE Detroit Banquet will be held June 1st in Detroit - so, save the date, and come see who our award winners are!  

Here is the form to fill out with your nomination.  The awards are listed below and the descriptions can be found on the nomination form.  Feel free to nominate as many SWE Detroit members as you would like.  

• Outreach Savvy Award
• Professional Development Excellence Award
• Membership Award
• Treasurer Award
• Communicator Award
• National Contributions Award
• Key Contributor Award
• Consistent Contributor Award
• Community Service Award
• Volunteer Award
• Technical Award
• New Engineer Award

SWE Individual Awards Due March 31st

SWE is now accepting submissions for their Individual Awards.  If you or someone you know is eligible for an award, let's get a packet ready and get you/them nominated!  If you need any help putting together a packet or need a SWE nomination, don't hesitate to reach out to your SWE D President Jessica Swan (jlengwis@gmail.com).

All of the awards can be found on the SWE website: http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/awards/individual-awards

May Royal Oak Book Club

Event: Royal Oak Book Club

Date: May 15, 2016

Time: 4:00 - 6:00 PM

Location: Vinotecca, 417 South Main Street, Royal Oak, MI 48067

Cost: Everyone pays for themselves

Parking: Free on Sunday

Point of contact: Michele Marion michele.marion@swe.org

Other info:

Discussing The Turner House by Angela Fluornoy

Review of Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town By Jon Krakauer

Review by Irina Sullivan

Victims of sexual assault, unlike victims of any other crime, face unprecedented hurdles in convincing the public and the jury that a perpetrator of a horrific violence against them deserves to be punished in any way. The reports of rapes on college campuses being on the rise dominate the national headlines and yet nearly every case is met with its share of skepticism from the immediate community as well as the public at large. Has the victim done enough to prevent the unspeakable from happening? Did she (and most often it is ‘she’) simply regret consenting after the fact? Did she dress and behave in such a way that invited the attack? And

on and on.

As with his other work, Jon Krakauer is thorough in his quest to challenge deep-seated assumptions, erroneous beliefs, prejudices, and unjust partiality toward the perpetrator in cases of rape. The reader is led through several accounts of rape cases reported in Missoula, Montana, a very typical college town home

to a well-loved state university with a revered and treasured football team. Walking in the shoes of each of the victims makes for a difficult, hair-raising, disheartening, and, most importantly, eyeopening read. One after another the victims muster all remaining strength and willpower to report the crime to campus authorities or the police. One after another their accounts doubted, unfairly challenged, and their true motivations questioned. And one after another they are betrayed by their friends, community, and the justice system in favor of their assailants, charismatic and accomplished young men whose futures are bright but for the unfortunate accusations laid against them. 

Krakauer is relentless in taking every case to its eventual and usually less than satisfying end. But as weary as the reader may be to relive the near hopelessness of taking a rape case to trial (and most cases will never even reach this stage), no one is as weary, disappointed, and confused as the victim herself. “Missoula” is a desperately necessary book if we are to ever bring the scales of justice into balance with respect to the victims of sexual assault.

Awards Banquet Friday May 13th - Please RSVP!

Please join us in celebrating SWE Detroit's accomplishments for Fiscal Year 2016!  The evening will include: Overview of SWE Detroit's events this year, High School Scholarship Presentation, SWE Detroit Award Presentation, Officer and Chair recognition, Keynote Speaker Lucy Clark Dougherty and Introduction of our FY17 Officers.  Please note that our originally communicated keynote speaker, Senator Debbie Stabenow, is no longer able to attend.  She was very excited about the event and sends her best wishes to us as we celebrate our accomplishments for the year.

Time: Networking at 5:00PM; Program Begins at 6:00PM
Location: The Henry, 300 Town Center Dr, Dearborn, MI 48126

Keynote Speaker: Lucy Clark Dougherty, Deputy General Counsel Commercial, Product Safety & Regulatory, General Motors (due to unforeseen circumstances, Senator Stabenow is no longer able to attend the banquet)

Price: $60 for members and member's guest; $65 for non-members; $900 for a Corporate Table

Click HERE for individual registration
Click HERE for corporate table registration

Save the Date for the FY16 Awards Banquet!

ESD Gold Awards - Celebrating Dawn Tilbury

At this year's Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD) Gold Awards, we are thrilled to be celebrating one of our own -- SWE-D's nominee, Dawn Tilbury, PhD, has been selected as this year's Gold Award winner.  Now in its 45th year, the Gold Award honors engineering leaders for outstanding technical contributions and dedication to the profession.

Dr. Tilbury is currently the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering at University of Michigan.  Her research interests include distributed control of mechanical systems with network communication, logic control of manufacturing systems, reliability of ground robotics, and dynamic systems modeling of physiological systems.

We hope you will attend in support of Dr. Tilbury. In addition, the Gold Awards are a great opportunity to network with hundreds of professionals representing dozens of professional societies across all fields of engineering.

Date: March 16, 2016

Venue: VisTaTech Center at Schoolcraft College

Address: 18600 Haggerty Road, Livonia, MI 48152

Agenda:

5:30 Reception 

6:30 Dinner

7:15 Awards Program

Please RSVP to Ashley Lesser <ashley.prescott@gmail.com> by February 10 to qualify for a reduced rate of $75-80 (depending on final head count) with seating at one of SWE-D's tables.

Awards Banquet June 4th

SWE Detroit Annual Awards Banquet

Please join us for the Annual SWE Detroit Awards Banquet where we recognize the contributions of SWE Detroit members over the last year and meet our high school scholarship winners!

Event: SWE-Detroit Annual Awards Banquet
Date: Thursday, June 4, 2015
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Dearborn Inn, 20301 Oakwood, Dearborn, MI 48124
Cost: Members $50, Non-members $60
RSVP: May 21st
Point of contact: Rosa Bushkuhl (rosa.bushkuhl@gmail.com)
Online registration: http://formsmarts.com/form/1k43

Other info: Business Dressy Attire is Recommended

Corporate Table Sponsorship: If your company is interested in sponsoring a corporate table, please refer to the attached Corporate Table Form. You can also register for a corporate table using the online registration link above.

SWE-D Awards Banquet - June 4th, 2015

Please join us for the Annual SWE Detroit Awards Banquet where we recognize the contributions of SWE Detroit members over the last year and meet our high school scholarship winners!

Event: SWE-Detroit Annual Awards Banquet
Date: Thursday, June 4, 2015
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: 20301 Oakwood, Dearborn, MI 48124
Cost: Members $50, Non-members $60
RSVP: May 21st
Point of contact: Megan Cloughesy (megan.cloughesy@gmail.com)
Online registration: http://formsmarts.com/form/1k43

Other info: Business Dressy Attire is Recommended

SAVE THE DATE: SWE-D Awards Banquet

Please save the date for the annual SWE Detroit Awards Banquet! This is is an opportunity to recognize SWE Detroit members for their outstanding contributions to activities during the year. It is also when we recognize our high school scholarship winners!